SMARTY: The mileS Moderate resolution neAr-infRared sTellar librarY
Michele Bertoldo-Co\^elho, Rog\'erio Riffel, Marina Trevisan, Natacha, Zanon Dametto, Luis Dahmer-Hahn, Paula Coelho, Lucimara Martins, Daniel, Ruschel-Dutra, Alexandre Vazdekis, Alberto Rodr\'iguez-Ardila, Ana L., Chies-Santos, Rogemar A. Riffel, Francesco La Barbera

TL;DR
SMARTY is a new near-infrared stellar spectral library covering 0.9-2.4 micrometers, consisting of 31 stars observed with Gemini North, designed to improve stellar population models and address current NIR spectral inconsistencies.
Contribution
This work introduces the SMARTY NIR stellar library with 31 stars, including 26 newly presented spectra, providing a reliable resource for stellar population studies in the near-infrared.
Findings
SMARTY spectra show ~20% difference in equivalent widths compared to synthetic spectra.
Continuum shape differences are about 1% between observed and interpolated or theoretical spectra.
Photometric comparisons with 2MASS show mean magnitude differences up to 0.07 mag.
Abstract
Most of the observed galaxies cannot be resolved into individual stars and are studied through their integrated spectrum using simple stellar populations (SSPs) models, with stellar libraries being a key ingredient in building them. Spectroscopic observations are increasingly being directed towards the near-infrared (NIR), where much is yet to be explored. SSPs in the NIR are still limited, and there are inconsistencies between different sets of models. One of the ways to minimize this problem is to have reliable NIR stellar libraries. The main goal of this work is to present SMARTY (mileS Moderate resolution neAr-infRared sTellar librarY) a ~0.9-2.4m stellar spectral library composed of 31 stars observed with the Gemini Near-IR Spectrograph (GNIRS) at the 8.1m Gemini North telescope and make it available to the community. The stars were chosen from the SMARTY library, for which…
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